Friday, September 4, 2015

Altered Paper Mache {Blog Hop}

Today I get to share with you a sweet little artist collaboration.. or more like little artist CHALLENGE. A few sweet gals got together and thought it would be fun to challenge ourselves to an Altered Paper Mache Animal hop! So here we are :)

So thanks so much for joining us on this little trip! And the results are in.... I'm pleased to introduce you to my Princess of the Ancient World!!!

The base was a dinosaur shaped paper mache animal. I covered the entire thing in my own layer of paper mache out of an elmers glue and water mixture and old vintage book pages. After that was dry I painted the spikes of my little dino in titanium white paint. Then there were two layers of glazing in burnt umber, a scraping of lime green paint and then another two layers of glazing in burnt umber. There was lots of painting.. wiping away. painting. wiping away. and I must say the results are PHENOMENAL.

After that was all said and done I decided to get a little doodly on the spikes and grabbed an Uni Posca paint pen in black. I dotted, zigzagged and circled up my dino. At this point she already felt regal but I hadn't decided on exactly how to finish her. Then when I was digging around in my words pile these two fell out. I swear it was like magic. It all clicked together and I was done!

Now I'm not sure if I'm completely done with her or not - there are definitely some ideas floating around in my head... I want to find or make her a crown of some sort.. and maybe make some jewels dangle from her tail. Time will tell!